Aleppo Mayor Blames West For Doing Nothing Over ‘Holocaust’ In City – The mayor of Aleppo has hit out at the international community for failing to halt government and Russian airstrikes on the city. [sky]

Boris Tells People To Protest Outside Russian Embassies Over Syria – Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson asks where the Stop the War Coalition is now in Syria’s hour of need and calls on people to hold protests outside Russian embassies around the world. [tele]

Russia, US Move Past Cold War To Unpredictable Confrontation – It’s not a new Cold War. It’s not even a deep chill. It’s an outright conflict. [cnn]

Rand Cheers Possible U-Turn On Gordhan – National Prosecuting Authority head Shaun Abrahams said he is willing to review a decision to prosecute Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on fraud charges if requested to do so. The rand gained. [f24]

Gordhan Hits Out At Sars Head Over Mystery Payments To His Right-Hand Man – Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has accused South African Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Tom Moyane of trying to cover up alleged corruption by his second-in-command, after a damning investigative report detailing millions in mystery payments surfaced in the media last month. [mg]

On-Duty Texas Police Officers Wore Pro-Trump Hats. That’s A Problem – A group of San Antonio police officers violated city policies when they donned “Make America Great Again” hats and posed for photos with Donald Trump on Tuesday. [huff]

China’s Rich List Reveals The Rise Of A New Wave Of Wealthy Chinese – Chinese property magnate Wang Jianlin has defended his crown as the country’s richest man, according to the annual Hurun rich list, fending off Alibaba Group Holding Ltd founder Jack Ma and new players on the block like Baoneng’s Yao Zhenhua.

Amazon Seeks To Recapture Music Fans With New Streaming Service – Amazon announced the debut of an on-demand music-streaming service called Amazon Music Unlimited. With a subscription model like Spotify and Apple Music, Amazon will charge standard subscribers $10 per month; for Amazon Prime subscribers, just $8 a month; and for users of its Echo devices, only $4 a month. [npr]

Samsung Issues Fireproof Boxes To Return Galaxy Note 7s – Company must deal with more than 1.5 million phones, both original and those issued as replacements. [cbc]

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Disruption, Democracies And Digital Media – Code for Africa is gathering some of the world’s best digital journalists and civic technologists for three days of talks and workshops around data journalism, civic tech, 360 and VR journalism. #MediaPartyAfrica takes place October 21 – 23 in Cape Town. Registration is free but limited. [here]

Michael Jackson Outstrips Prince, Bowie As Top-Earning Dead Celebrity – Michael Jackson has topped an annual list of the top-earning dead celebrities for the fourth straight year, far outstripping fellow musical icons Prince and David Bowie who died earlier this year. [abc]

Janet Jackson Confirms Pregnancy At 50 – Janet Jackson is finally letting the world in on her big news. [cnn]

Nick Nolte On His Bizarre Encounter With Donald Trump: ‘He’s Not a Tough Guy’ – The veteran actor sat down to discuss playing an ex-president trying to make good with the public on his new Epix series ‘Graves,’ the election, and more. [db]

Aussie Nick Kyrgios Booed During Listless Effort In Shanghai – Nick Kyrgios was booed during a listless 6-3, 6-1 loss to Mischa Zverev at the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday, then angrily defended his behavior by saying he didn’t owe the spectators anything and fans could “just leave” if they didn’t like his attitude. [dm]

Tiger Woods Calls Off Safeway Open Comeback Citing ‘Vulnerable’ Game – Tiger Woods’s career outlook has taken its latest bleak turn with confirmation that he will not, as announced, return to competitive action at this week’s Safeway Open in California. Woods has also pulled out of November’s Turkish Airlines Open, citing the “vulnerable” state of his game. [guardian]

Finally, Some Good News For South African Rugby Fans – Mention the word rugby this week and you might be the recipient of a few death stares and the odd rant, but here’s something we can actually look forward to. [here]

These South African Rock Legends Have Teamed Up With A V&A Waterfront Hot Spot – Check It Out – Remember Watershed? They’re still going strong, and if great food and those familiar favourite jams are your thing then this one is for you. [more]

Tyson Fury Gives Up His World Boxing Titles To Focus On Treatment – Tyson Fury has vacated his WBO and WBA world titles to concentrate on his treatment and recovery from drug use and other personal issues. [fox]

LeBron James Says Locker Room Talk Isn’t What ‘That Guy’ Thinks It Is – LeBron James didn’t hesitate on Tuesday when asked to explain what constitutes locker room talk in his eyes, and he didn’t even feel the need to reference Donald Trump by name while taking a shot at him in the process. [huff]

‘E.T.’ Movie Poster Sells For Almost $400,000 –  The original painting for the movie poster for “E.T. The Extraterrestrial” has sold for almost $400,000 at auction. [newser]

Star Wars Firm Fined £1.6m Over Harrison Ford Injury – A production company behind the latest Star Wars movie has been fined £1.6m ($2m) after Harrison Ford broke his leg on set. [bbc]

Backstreet Boys Don’t Want to Hear Donald Trump Say (Or Play) ‘I  Want It That Way’ – You can now add the Backstreet Boys to the growing list of artists who don’t want Donald Trump to use their music for his presidential campaign. [billb]

Nicole Kidman, 49, Flashes Her Endless Legs – As slashed gothic gown billows in the breeze at Lion premiere in London. [dm]

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